“Django Unchained” and raunchy comedy “Ted” landed seven MTV
Movie Awards nominations on Tuesday, leading a slew of comedies and
superhero blockbusters among the nominees at the annual film awards
voted for by youth audiences.
Oscar-winner Jennifer
Lawrence, 22, landed five nominations, including Best Female Performance
for her role as young widow Tiffany in quirky comedy “Silver Linings
Playbook,” as well as Best Kiss, Best On-Screen Duo and Best Musical
Moment with her co-star Bradley Cooper.
Cooper, 38, who plays
bipolar character Pat in “Silver Linings,” tied with Seth MacFarlane as
pot-smoking foul-mouthed bear Ted for four nominations each.
“Silver Linings” picked up six nominations, including the night’s top honor for Movie of the Year.
Quentin
Tarantino’s spaghetti Western-style “Django” scored an array of
nominations including Best Villain for Leonardo DiCaprio and Best
On-Screen Duo for DiCaprio as plantation owner Calvin Candie and Samuel
L. Jackson as his slave, Stephen.
“Family Guy” creator
MacFarlane’s R-rated directorial debut “Ted” also picked up a Movie of
the Year nod, along with Best Female Performance for Mila Kunis and Best
WTF Moment.
While the star-studded Oscars, hosted by MacFarlane
last month, honored critically acclaimed films, the MTV Movie Awards is a
tongue-in-cheek, youth-orientated ceremony rewarding the box office
hits often overlooked by the Academy Awards.
Hosted by “Pitch
Perfect” actress and comedienne Rebel Wilson, the Movie Awards will hand
out golden popcorn trophies in 12 categories, ranging from
performances, Best Kiss, Best Fight and Best Villain.
“The Dark
Knight Rises,” the final installment in Christopher Nolan’s Batman
franchise which grossed $1 billion at the worldwide box office, landed
five nods including Movie of the Year despite failing to pick up an
Oscar nominations.
Superhero blockbuster “Avengers” and James Bond
film “Skyfall,” teenage coming-of-age film “The Perks of Being a
Wallflower” and musical comedy “Pitch Perfect” all scored four nods
each.
For the second year in a row, the “Twilight” franchise was
snubbed, as final film “Breaking Dawn – Part 2″ only received one
nomination for star Taylor Lautner in the irreverent Best Shirtless
Performance category.
“Twilight” used to reign at the awards as
lead stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson dominated the Best Kiss
category, but last year “Breaking Dawn – Part 1″ only picked up one
award, albeit for Movie of the Year.
The MTV Movie Awards have a
long-standing tradition of adding cheeky categories each year, such as
Biggest Badass Star and Sexiest Performance.
This year, Batman
will face stiff competition from a male stripper, a werewolf, James Bond
and a stuffed teddy bear for Best Shirtless Performance, as actors
Christian Bale, Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig, Lautner and MacFarlane
lock heads in the tightly contested category.
The Best
Scared-As-S**T Performance category is another new addition this year,
pitting five actors in roles that had thrilling terror-filled moments.
The
category will see Lawrence from horror flick “House at the End of the
Street” competing against Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark Thirty,”
Alexandra Daddario in “Texas Chainsaw 3D,” Martin Freeman in “The
Hobbit” and Suraj Sharma in “Life of Pi” for the coveted golden popcorn
trophy
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